Five Years Of Making Magic

Five years ago we were just hoping a family would say yes to a party proposal we built in Canva. Now we’re celebrating a fifth business birthday with a full-blown brand shoot, a cake that made our jaws hit the floor, and the kind of gratitude that only comes from doing the scary thing and not stopping.

We talk through the milestone from the inside out: how time moves like a blink, how “mature business” energy feels different, and how our work shifts when we let it reflect who we really are. We get into creative entrepreneurship choices that sound small but change everything, like giving ourselves permission to make up the rules, build a brand with meaning, and even call ourselves “event magicians” when that’s the truest title. If you care about event planning, brand identity, small business growth, or creative marketing, this one is packed with real talk and lived experience.

Then we take you behind the scenes of our biggest branding shoot to date: the timeline, the multiple concepts, the outfit changes, and the intention to time capsule the story. We share why brand photography and video content matter when you’re building trust and telling a consistent story, plus the hilarious reality of filming an MTV Cribs style tour at Slate and realizing that being good at something in real life does not mean you won’t freeze on camera.

The heart of it lands on purpose. We honor Mama Adele for seeing our gift early, naming it out loud, and helping set us on a path we couldn’t have predicted. If you’re building something in ROC or anywhere and you need a reminder to keep going one bite at a time, press play. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s chasing a dream, and leave us a review so more people can find the magic.

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Transcript

Fifth Birthday Toast

Barb 0:15

Episode 137. This is gonna be fun. 137. When we started this podcast, I didn't know that episode 137 would land on our fifth birthday. I know the serendipitousness. And just how we weren't thinking, right? How you don't really can't plan everything. Everything. You can't know everything. Things just have to unfold and have to come to you when the time is right. And man, you know, it just hits. It does. It really does. So what is in your cup? I think how to smell it. Yeah. I think this one is the blueberry. I do too. Because she heard it and how much we loved it. Yep.

Lyssa 1:07

So she ran it back. I think so for our birthday, which just makes it a little more extra special. So thank you. And happy birthday. Happy birthday.

Barb 1:20

So good. That's good. Yep. I'm happy. Yeah. So five years in business partner. Yeah. Isn't that crazy?

Lyssa 1:28

We've been doing this for five whole years. Isn't that crazy? It's like the craziest thing that I think we've ever done. I can say that. And like we've done a lot of crazy shit. Like, we are not young women anymore, you know? We're mature women now. And I can say that starting this business is by far the wildest thing I've done in all my years. I don't know how we're here. And they do know how we're here. And at the same time, I'm like, wait,

Time Flies Through Milestones

Lyssa 2:02

what?

Barb 2:02

We before we even got on, we were talking about time and how Oliver's birthday is coming up and how it's a big milestone. 10, right? Two whole hands. One full decade. And how in the blink of an eye, yeah. You went from pregnant to 10 years old, and you were like, holy shit, what happened? Yeah. And I think that's exactly how we feel about the business. That's how we've been feeling about the business. We've kind of been processing that we're turning five and this milestone moment and what it means in the business world, right? To birth a business. Five years is a big thing.

SPEAKER_04 2:46

Yeah.

Barb 2:47

And at the same time looking back and saying, like, holy shit, how in five years have we done so much? We've accomplished so much. And if I can, not if I can, I can go back to me five years ago, where today we count this as our business birthday because today was the first day that we did our very first proposal, right?

The First Paid Proposal Nerves

Barb 3:15

We curated a party, our very first one for a family that wasn't ours, uh, an event that wasn't for us. And we got paid for it. That was the very first time we ever did it. Yeah. And I never once thought about five years later.

Lyssa 3:38

It was such a monumental moment that I can I can go right back into. And I remember like sitting at the table. I I remember putting the proposal together. I remember doing all of the things in Canva. Trying to make it look so cute and so legitimate, you know, because we wanted to be real business and just putting together this party and this package and really figuring out how we did this for someone else. Because, like you said, we never did this for anyone else before. So this was like not something that was new to us. We knew exactly what we wanted to do. Like putting the proposal together, looking back on it, was not hard. No. We knew exactly how we wanted the party to look. Like that was fun and easy. And it was just a matter of doing it for someone else. And now I'm gonna have all these ideas that I think are great, because like I put them in here. I think this is gonna be a cool party. But like, do you think it's gonna be a cool party? Are you gonna wanna spend the money on this party the way that I priced it out to be? Like all of these things. I just remember the big ball of nerves. Like, oh my God, we're gonna go into this house. We're gonna sit down at this table, we're gonna show someone a party that we know we can do. I never doubted that for a second. But are they going to wanna pay for it? Are they gonna wanna, are they gonna see the value once they pay for it, if they pay for it? And then are they gonna be happy with it? Like just so many things rushing through my head. There was no way in H-E double hockey sticks that this girl was gonna be thinking about doing this still five years later. That's just it was impossible at that time. I I don't know.

Barb 5:33

It's surreal, it's a wild ride. So we've been living in that ooey gooeiness in that remembering the very beginning because we're not that far removed, and then everything that has happened so far, and because we are a mature business, now we are planning for the future. The book is starting to have some meat to it. Yeah, there is a story, and then we have to finish that story. We have to keep going. We keep planning, we keep getting bigger, and that perspective, that hindsight, that overwhelming feeling of proud and happy and all the things, it's that's what we're sitting in. Yeah, and that's what we're living in because that's what birthdays and milestones are about.

Lyssa 6:30

Yeah. It's the reflection, right? In order to really celebrate it, for us, we have to integrate it. And so when we look back at five years, I have to look at all the things that I've done in these last five years to know what it, what is it exactly that I'm celebrating on this day? And I think because of the photo shoot, we we really went back. We went all the way back. We're like, I think it's time to go back to the roots. Like the very first thing that we did, like, how did we get here to five years? We threw a party. That's how you do it. That's how you start something. You just do it, you start it. And so we threw one party, and then we threw another party and another, and it just snowballed into a business that lasted for five years. What's crazy, dude? That's how we did it. That's it. I just didn't stop throwing parties, and what a gift to be able to say five years later, right, that there is still a need for me to throw parties. And I can't stop so long as there's things on my calendar, right? Like if as long as people keep booking me, as long as I keep sitting at the kitchen table and showing these people the amazing things that I can do inside their homes in their backyards at Slate, you know, I don't see a reason why we aren't going to be celebrating 10 years and 15 years and 20 years. And I at day one, I couldn't see year five. But at year five, I can see like year 50. Like that, that to me is crazy. That is like such an expansive amount of growth that I feel like I just can't even swallow. You know, like it's hard to contain, right? I'm gonna burst, you know? And it feels like that, you know, how how do you eat an elephant? Like you just you just take one bite at a time. And like that's how it feels. Like, how do I kind of integrate the last five years while also opening myself to the world of possibilities that is the next five years of our business and what that evolution can be? And it's just so grand that I'm like, oh, that's a really big elephant. What you know, and I'm just the only thing I could think is just keep going, just keep throw another party, just keep throwing your parties because that's what's gotten you here, and that's what's gonna keep you here, and like that is

Making Up The Job

Lyssa 9:10

it feels so good. I don't know, like I don't have any big words for it, it just feels good. You posted a a reel recently with the trend of like you look happier, and it was like, thanks. We get to show up to a got a job that we created, and like how powerful is that? I made it up, and obviously, right? Like, event planner is not, you know, uh, I didn't make that up.

Barb 9:39

What I've not been make the concept up. You're so humble.

Lyssa 9:44

I'm not the first in the industry, so humble. You're cute. But the fact that I get to make up what this business looks like. We just had a fun interaction with someone who came to pick up something from Facebook Marketplace. So we just had a stranger come in and you know, our garage is full of things. They're picking up something, they saw all our stuff. We happened upon conversation on our business, and we gave him a business card, and he the first thing he saw, he's like, Oh, event magicians, that's cute. Yeah, and I'm like, Yeah, it is cute. I know, right? Because I get to make it up, so I don't have to call myself an event planner if I don't want to. I can call myself an event magician because I like to bring the magic, so that's what I do. And like, how powerful is that? I get to create anything that I want. I get to create my job, I get to create my job title, I get to create these parties, I get to create memories for other people, I get to do just such amazing things because I throw parties, because I sat at a table and asked my best friend to open a business because someone saw something in us that we couldn't see ourselves, and now I get to sit on this couch on a podcast and talk about it.

Barb 11:07

What is life? What is life? It's completely different. It's it's a completely different life with a completely different set of values and perspective and growth and all the things, all because of all the things that you said. I'm not gonna say them again, but who knew? Yeah, right. Five years later, we didn't know. I'm here five years later to say I had no idea. I had no idea, I had no idea. And maybe other people around us knew the whole time and believed in all the things, but from where I was standing, what I was looking at, I couldn't see it. Yeah. And we did it. We're here, we're celebrating, we are a mature business. We planned and executed what was the biggest brand shoot that we've done to date. It was so good. And the intention, right? The going back to if you get to make this whatever you want it to be, yeah, let's make it the most fun. Right. Let's make it the most us. Let's make it the best that it could be because I get to make it up. For so long, we lived in boxes where we had to play by other people's rules. And we hate that shit.

Lyssa 12:39

It didn't feel good.

Barb 12:40

And now all of a sudden we have the opportunity to be free of that box and make up the rules and do what's best for us and integrate pieces of ourselves, right? Everything that is in our brand, it is an infusion of who we are. It is not because it's pretty, it's not because it's trendy. It has a meaning, it has an intention, it has a purpose because we have infused this business with who we are. Yeah. And that's what makes it us. And that's what makes it means so much more. This is a reflection of who I am, of who we are, of who we want to be and how we want to show up for other people. It means so much more. Yeah. So, like, I'm gonna bring the fun. Yeah, and I'm gonna bring the personality. And I think we did it. Yeah. So let's

Building A Full-Day Brand Shoot

Barb 13:40

talk about it.

Lyssa 13:40

It was, it was a lot of fun. And in getting ready in the morning, I was kind of like going through our timeline, right? We had the whole schedule, we had the timeline, we're thinking about the things that we're gonna do and say and all of that. Before you even get into that, it was like a legit photo shoot day.

Barb 13:59

Like what felt like we just came fresh off America's next top model. Like it was a legit photo shoot day. There were outfit changes, there were costume changes, there were hairstyle differences. It was here and there and in the back and outside. And it was all the different concepts.

Lyssa 14:18

Real. Yeah, yeah. And I think that was like the funnest part of it. Um, because we've had obviously branding shoots before, but it's always kind of been in like that two-hour time block. A smidge time. Here you go. We're gonna go in here, we're gonna take these pictures, it's gonna be this, and it's and then it's just done. And it's always been, yes, for like a short period of time. So to build this day, because that's what it was, it was a full day of content. Um, it was expansive. Like it was a lot. Uh, and there was, there was multiple concepts, and there were there were changes. Like we're gonna like, we're gonna set everything up like this, and then we're gonna take it down, then we're gonna set it up like this. Like there were things to transition. And that was, I don't know, it felt mature.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

Like I was like, well, look at us.

Barb 15:12

You know, there's no way that we could have pulled that off in our younger years. Yeah. And that's why it felt mature. It felt like a big girl.

Lyssa 15:20

It just felt like I had a lot more to say, right? Like in the beginning, it was able to be short and sweet because I was only around for a year or two. I didn't have much to say. But after five years, no, I have a lot to say, and there's a lot to do. And it was like, I felt us kind of like being like, okay, we cut this and cut that, like kind of like shortening things. And I'm like, yeah, no, like all of the things matter. Like, we need all the things. It was just so important. And that was like a really big takeaway where I was like, everything that you're doing is important. Like everything that you're touching needs to be included in this in order to tell the story that we're trying to tell. And that was like, wow, you you have a story. You have a lot to say. And it was really fun to go in and out of that and to transition from, you know, this hairstyle and this outfit, and what are we trying to convey in these pictures to whatever we're trying to convey in the next pictures. And I don't know, it was it was almost like it took me through the five years in business and how we started just sitting at the table, right? Like doing our proposals, and now we're setting up parties, and now there's the after party, and now we have this podcast where we get to talk about all the parties, and it felt like this full circle of everything that we've done and accomplished, and what has truly gotten us here to this point, and getting that captured in in a photograph, getting that captured in video, time capsuling it. That's always something that's very special to us. So it was such a fun day to be able to live in that and just be in the moment. We had the best photographer that just made the day so much more fun and enjoyable. Nothing, nothing about it was bring anxiety, you know, like, or like, oh, we gotta get this or we gotta do that. Like it just flowed. It was it was such a fun day. And I'm just really grateful for being able to get all of the things done. And yes, it did get done over two days because we bit off way more than we could chew. Which like felt like a classic classic. Classic, Far Lisa. Classic. And that, you know, while it was like a not good but not bad kind of situation, it again just kind of affirmed like you have a lot to say. There's a lot to do. Like, why did you think that you're gonna be able to get through all of those things, no matter how pretty that timeline is, you know, we couldn't get through all of it in one day. That also felt, again, affirming, right? Like these things are just gonna ebb and flow. It's all very natural. Like, and it the fact that we were able to just be like, okay, we'll just do it again the next day, you know, and pick up and kind of finish what we started, all in all, just was like, I get to create this life. I get to create this moment, I get to create this memory. And having that ability to just like, I don't know, express ourselves. I think that's really it was an outlet for sure.

Time-Capsuling The Business Story

Barb 18:44

We I think highly, highly recommend everyone do brand shoots and things like that. And as creatives, we love that shit because now what better story to tell than my own, right? I specialize in telling other people's stories through events, and now we get to do that for ourselves and we get to embed all of this beautiful magic. And it is a true, it is a piece of the integration. It is the a piece that we need in order to fully integrate this beautiful story and celebrate and do it justice. Yeah. And what better way than to throw ourselves right, this party and capture it on film so that we can look back at it forever and ever because that's just what we what we like to do, you know? What we do for other people is what we actually like to do for ourselves. And that's the full circle of the magic because I'm I'm bringing everything to you because this matters. I I understand how much this matters. And thank God Britton said yes. Because I do not think there was a more perfect person for us. She listened, she offered advice and gave her perspective and was gentle with us. Yeah. We cried at our first meeting.

SPEAKER_02 20:25

That sounds about right. That sounds like another classic, Bar Lisa.

Barb 20:30

So we have already, we were bringing so much emotion and all of that into this already. And she held us with such grace and again made made it everything that we wanted it to be. And we've kind of been, you know, we we took BTS. Yeah, yeah, but we haven't seen the photos. No, those come later. And I just know. I I just know I'm gonna love them. Yeah, I'm gonna cry. Have you ever seen something that you've never seen and loved it? I I yes, because I can see it in my head, yeah, and I love it.

Lyssa 21:12

Yeah. I have no doubts that it's gonna be magic. And it was just so I want to talk about it because it was really the little details that obviously are what made it the most fun.

MTV Cribs Tour Blooper Chaos

Lyssa 21:27

Um, so the first funnest thing that we did was record our MTV Cribs style tour video for Slate.

SPEAKER_02 21:37

The funnest. The funnest. And it was everything that I knew I wanted, and yet it is gonna be the gift that keeps on giving because I cannot wait for this footage back.

Lyssa 21:51

The video is going to be hilarious, I have no doubts. But the bloopers, the bloopers, the bloopers I live for bloopers. You know, and like I'm a post them. And I'm a big blooper. We thought that we knew what we were gonna do. And then I don't, I do not know how Hollywood exists.

SPEAKER_02 22:14

I don't know how those people do it. That shit is so hard.

Barb 22:17

So I okay, a little behind the scenes. We like practice like 40%.

SPEAKER_02 22:24

I would say, I would say like 25%.

Barb 22:26

I would say like like a good between 30 and 40% practice. And I guess, right? It makes sense. And it also feel good, right? We give tours all the time. I walk people through slate and I tell them the highlights, right? This is not new. So we're like, but also, do I have to practice 100 if I do this already? I'm natural. I'm flow. I'm not, I'm not natural, I'm not flow. I'm weird. So like we're here, and all of a sudden she's like, okay, and action. And she goes, and I'm blank. I'm like, my monkeys plapping on the inside. What is that? What is that in the human brain?

Lyssa 23:14

I don't know. I feel like, is that like a form of stage fright, but like camera fright? I don't know what it was, but it was hilarious because everything you just said, right? Like we do this so much now that I feel like it's when we when we had our kids were younger and we could like literally recite those books, right? Their favorite books. I didn't need to look at the words anymore. Like I had that shit memorized, and that's how I feel like a tour is. They come in and we kind of go through their like logisticals, their personal stuff. And then once it's like tour time, boom, tour guide Barbie, she turns on. Okay. And like I'm just gonna tell you all the things that you need to know. Like it's a speech, it's just feel, it's something that you go through. So I just thought it was gonna be so much easier.

Barb 23:58

I just thought it was gonna be so much easier. And then it wasn't.

Lyssa 24:03

And then when all we do is laugh together, you know, it's just not the best recipe for success. Um, so yeah, that was that was a lot of fun. And I feel like, remember, there was one point where we were upstairs trying to give a tour of the private suite.

Barb 24:24

I can't wait for the people to see it.

Lyssa 24:28

And usually all we say is that it's it's a private suite, right? It has a door, so you can hang out in here. And if you want to get ready, you can get ready in here. All you need to know is that there's a door if you need any privacy. Privacy for mommies and daddies.

Barb 24:45

And that's it. You have to go watch the video when it's posted. I'm not gonna say anymore. I just made it hella fucking weird. And it wasn't my fault. My brain, I something took over. And it was so funny.

Lyssa 24:57

It was just the fact that for both of us, we genuinely just started saying some random shit that we never say.

Barb 25:04

Lies like AI took over and started screaming lie after lie. I'm like, oh my god, I can't stop. And and it was so much fun, right? Again, never at any point did Britain know. It was so natural. Like, you want to do that again.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

You want to do that again? We can do it again. It's okay. No, let's do it again. Like, you got it, Britain. Let's do it again.

Barb 25:26

So we did this thing because we're millennials, and we what better way again to market my business than in fun ways? Yeah. And we had someone to hold us through it. And now we get to fucking have this awesome video for marketing purposes, which was the goal, ultimately, like that was the goal. And a little bit of both, we get all of these hilarious blooper reels to remember our fucking day together.

Lyssa 25:57

Yeah. And like I genuinely can't wait to like year 10 open that up and like laugh all over again and just remember what we were doing five years prior, trying to get some millennial tour videos.

Barb 26:10

So, do you want to talk about how this isn't, wasn't it? Oh, technically, MTV Cribs video. We did one at HQ. We did do one at HQ. Equally just as funny. We laughed a lot. So much. So much. Equally just as hard. I remember brain shutting off and like saying dumb things. Do you remember when we got stuck in the hallway because we were side by side and tried to walk down a hallway together that didn't fit us side by side? And we like Austin powered it. So, like, how fun that we get all of these moments. I'm dead. I'm dead. This is what our life is. That that was a work day for me. It was the best workday ever. And I have a compilation of these things because it's not our first one and it's not our last one. And this is the celebration of all of the hard work in between. All those other 100 probably plus episodes where your girls is going through it. And like, what are we gonna do? And we're trying to get our thoughts and emotions straight so that we can make better business decisions, like all of that stuff. That's the celebration. Yeah. Because I had to do a lot of hard work in order to get stuck side by side with my best friends in a hallway, you know? There's a lot of things you don't see before that. And I have to celebrate that, and I get to celebrate it. And we we did it so good. And that was just like one of the nuggets.

The Cake That Nailed It

Barb 27:50

Yeah.

Lyssa 27:50

Well, that was the first nugget. And then I was very happy. Like I was happy to do it, and it was so fun to get through it, but I was really excited because after that, it meant we got cake. And truly, of all of our photo shoots, of all of our branding, of all of our moments, of our big celebrations. For me, it really comes down to the cake. Yeah, always. Always dessert. There's always gonna be cake. And this time we let it be a little surprise. Um, because Trish loves us and she takes care of us. Shout out to Spoonful of Sugar. And we put in our, you know, request, our yearly request for a cake for to celebrate. And we were just like, you do your thing, right? Like, you know us, we're besties, you got this. And wow, does she know us? Because that cake literally blew me away. I was not ready for it. It was perfect in every way, shape, or form. And then it just tasted so good. And like that is the true art. I have seen so many beautiful cakes, and then I don't want to eat them. But her cake is so gorgeous, and I just want to devour it.

Barb 29:00

And that we did.

Lyssa 29:01

I did. And that we did.

Barb 29:03

Yes. Um, I knew it was beautiful because she opened, we went to the bakery and she opened it, and like we weren't kind of ready. No, I had no idea what was coming. Yeah, she just did it. We turned around, and then boom, this cake was there. And I was like, oh my God, is that's my cake? Yeah, jaw dropped. It was visually stunning, like visually the most mature, beautiful cake I've ever seen in my life to celebrate a five-year business birthday, if I have to say so myself. It was perfect. I think it was perfect. And then the immediate thought of was like, we should have caught that because our jaws hit the floor. It was such a visceral, like, oh my God, that cake is beautiful. That's my cake kind of moment. And that's how I knew that was like the kickoff. Yeah. And I was like, oh, this shit about to be fire when it looks like that.

Lyssa 29:55

You know that the taste is gonna match, that's for sure. And and it did. And like again, we get to create this life and have this photo shoot. And like, what do you want to do at your photo shoot? Well, I want to eat cake, and then I do it. That's my job, that's the job I created. How can I not hold immense gratitude for that? That I have the ability to just wake up every day and create my life. Choose my reality. Stay blessed.

Barb 30:30

There's another detail that you you didn't sneak it in because I knew, but it came like later on in the planning, as little details do. Um, one of my favorite details, we had a photo of us at our very first party. Yeah, the party that is celebrating five years, right? That was the beginning. And we took a picture of us holding the picture. And I think that I want to do that every year going forward because I I'm sad that we missed year, you know, the in-between years. Yeah. Um, but how powerful, yeah, how powerful to see those girls living in their bliss. They had they were so much fun that day. I remember. I remember how much fun they had. I remember how happy, how fucking happy they were. And to sit here five years later and still feel the same way. Um, that was a beautiful homage to how this all started and the family that started it for us. And I think those are gonna be one of my most favorite little like the section in the gallery. Yeah, for sure.

Lyssa 32:01

I can't wait to see that picture back. You're right. That was a fun detail. And that's that, you know, that came from the reflection, right? Like again, if in order to know what we're celebrating, I have to know what I'm celebrating. I had to go all the way back, and it was it was a lot of fun to see all the little different things that we did at the party. And I remember I found um our dream big notebook. I think we talked about that in a couple podcasts ago, but finding that and seeing that we do the same things, you know, in in kind of the same fashion that we did them from that very first party. It just shows that this was always gonna be the ending and not ending, but like this was always gonna come, this was always gonna happen. And we just I don't know, we gotta go with the flow. We just have to keep going. Our job is to just keep throwing parties.

Mama Adele Named Our Purpose

Barb 32:59

We we were gifted with the ultimate gift, I think, that anyone can receive because I do believe that it is so hard to figure out what what the thing is, the thing that is like gonna light you up, your gift, your purpose, your passion. That that's tricky for a lot of us humans because it's so big, it feels so hard. How do I even know? And we didn't have to figure it out. Someone looked at us and here, I'm I'm gonna tell you so you can know because apparently you don't know what you have.

Lyssa 33:44

And I that still like breaks me a little bit. Yeah, to be seen in that way. I it's still very vulnerable to go back and be like, but like, how did you know?

Barb 33:56

How did you know? Right now I'm hindsight, all the questions, and what a gift. And now my job is to to do it. You gifted me with my purpose, my passion. You brought it to light, you brought it to my awareness because I didn't see it, I didn't know. Yeah, we didn't believe. I don't all the limiting whatever adjectives you want to insert. Like, we didn't have any awareness until Mama Adele came in and said, uh, excuse me. Yeah, this is what you're supposed to be doing. Can't you see that? And we're like, uh no. And then she like she made it happen. Yeah, it is my job to honor that. Yeah, so many people walk this earth without being able to say, This is my thing. No, this is our thing. I feel it to the core. I didn't learn how to do this. I guess yes, I didn't, but I wasn't right taught how to do this. I didn't say, Oh, event planning, that's fun. I'm gonna go do that now. Yeah, this comes from our core. This comes from art and magic and how we want to live our lives and celebrate our families and celebrate the gift that is living.

Lyssa 35:17

So I gotta do it now. Yeah. There's no other option. Am I supposed to just be like, thanks for telling me my purpose in life? Yeah, I'm gonna go back to the other corporate job. What? What is that even what is even to me? Like that just doesn't even comprehend. And so it truly was almost like not having an option. You unlocked. I I remember saying those exact words to my boss in corporate America. I have no purpose here. I am not serving a purpose. I said those words, and then someone said, Hey, this is your purpose. Am I supposed to be like, Okay, thanks? I that doesn't make any sense. I put it out there. I said that I I needed something, and then it came to me. There's nothing in me that could ignore that, and there was nothing in me that wanted to ignore it.

Barb 36:14

It felt right, it did, it felt right from the very beginning, and it feels right now, and that's why we're here five years later and headed for five more years after that.

Lyssa 36:26

That's crazy to me.

Barb 36:28

It's crazy to me that five years later, this beautiful empire that we're cultivating and building, we're full-time entrepreneurs, right? We've never been to full-time entrepreneurs at year five before. How fun is that? Look at what we've built in five years with limited time. And now, how much more are we gonna build when this is this is our new life now? We are we are building a new new life, right? We had an old life, we built a new life, and now it is mature enough to go into the next stage of new. And I didn't know, man. I didn't, I'm gonna go back. I'm just as shocked as you are. I didn't know. And I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful to Mama Adele. I'm so grateful to everybody that we have met in between. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. No, I wouldn't want to be doing anything else for no other amount of money for insert anything. This we talked this morning. Yeah, I was just gonna say that we have beautiful fucking lives, and that still breaks my mind a little bit that this life that we are creating, that we're curating, is so fucking good.

Lyssa 38:11

It really is. It's the best. I'm happy. What? That's it. Period. I don't need to be anything else. I am happy. I'm happy in all facets of my life. And you know, can I say that five years ago? I sure can, no, I sure can. That's the power of continuing. That's the power of just throwing another party. And I can't wait to keep throwing more parties and to just keep being happy with my soulmate, making memories all around the world. Because yes, one day we're planning for international travel.

Confidence Deposits And Going International

Barb 38:57

One day we're gonna do big things, and that is another piece, right? There's so much confidence deposit that we have picked up in five years because five years is a long time to be doing something. And now I know the success is going to come. I don't know in what fashion, I don't know when, right? I don't have all the details, and I'm okay with not having the details. I'm okay with leaning and flowing into how it's supposed to unfold because that is a part of it. You have to lean and flow. You can't know all the details, and that's why in year one it was so scary and all the things we wanted definitive. Yeah, we had to learn how to surrender. That takes time. And it and we did it in confidence, and we're here, and that's why I know I will go international. And I know that we are headed for some crazy, crazy things because whatever we say we're gonna do, we do it. Yeah, we're really good at that. Whatever we say we're gonna do, we do it. Period. That's it. Like, say it again. Whatever you say you're gonna do, you're gonna do it. And we'd be saying some crazy shit.

Lyssa 40:16

We'd be a little crazy, but we'd be doing it too, so like it works. Balance, balance. I I can't wait. I just can't wait. But this is going to be the most epic part of our journey because we didn't know five years ago the awareness of where we were headed, but now like we have the awareness, which means this is only going to be grand year. And I can't wait. It's gonna be a wild fucking ride, and I can't wait.

Barb 40:57

We were met for a wild kind of ride, life, you know. I agree. I feel like I've been prepping for this since day one, baby.

Lyssa 41:05

So let's go, let's do it.

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Lyssa 41:07

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Surprise Congrats Message

SPEAKER_00 41:28

Congratulations, Barlisa. This is an awesome accomplishment, and Sean and I couldn't be happier for you. I can't help but remember back to the beginning, I knew something awesome was happening when we went to Teresa's wedding shower. Adele and I looked over at each other, and you know that look that you two had probably given each other. When you know something is brewing, you see something that's wonderful, you don't know the exact words, but you know that the other person just feels it. Well, that was what we were feeling at that bridal shower. What the two of you created on that Saturday afternoon in a townhouse in Chilai, we knew your talents would lead to something great. You showed us how a family celebration could be fun, classy, and also loving. So when it was time for Carly's graduation party, of course, you were our first call and our last. And our lovely Adele seized the opportunity to hire you, but of course pour into you. And the rest is history. If Adele was here, I think she would be a ha be doing a happy dance and just singing, I told you so, I told you so. Love you guys so much. Congratulations.